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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE STYLE OF FIELD DEPENDENCE /INDEPENDENCE AND CREATIVITY AMONG JUNIOR HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ISFAHAN

In the recent decades, psychologists have been interested in the study of the cognitive styles. the study of cognitive styles is important in education because it affects information processing. Field dependence/independence is one kind of cognitive styles which affects the cognitive processes and creativity. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between cognitive style, field dependence/ independence, and creativity among the junior high-school boy studentes. Subjects were consisted of 100 high-school students in Isfahan (51 girls and 49 boys), who were randomly selected through the multi-stage cluster sampling. The questionnaires were included Group embedded figures Test (Witkin, 1971), Torrance ʹs Creative Pictural Test (1974) and a demographic questionnaire. The result of pearson correlation coefficients showed a significant correlation between scores of field dependence/independence and creativity (p<0/001), The correlations between scores of field dependence / independence and creativity were also significant in boy and girl students (p<0/05). The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that the correlation between cognitive style of field dependence/independence and sub-scales of elaboration and originality were .significant. The results of multi variate analysis of variance showed that the mean elaboration scores of girls was significantly higher than the mean scores of the boys (p<0/001), The results of covariance analysis showed that differences between mean scores of boys and girls on the field dependence/independence and creativity were not significant.